On Mon 10.Dec'07 at 15:37:00 -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Monday, December 10 at 09:15 PM, quoth Jamie Griffin: > > Thanks Kyle > > > > i will look at procmail and see what i can so. Any ideas on where i > > could find some more infor about using procmail with imap folders? > > The stuff i've looked at seems mostly tailored for managing mail > > locally. > > It IS for managing mail locally; like I said, it's a *server-side* > filter. In other words, it's something you do *on the server*, and > from that vantage point, it is managing mail locally (i.e. local to > where procmail is running). It's not universally applicable, because > using procmail or maildrop usually requires the ability to edit files > in your home directory on the server (which often means you need a > shell account on the server). That's actually one of the big reasons > behind the design of SIEVE, which is that it is a server-side filter > that can be configured via the IMAP protocol and does not require some > other form of access to the delivery mechanisms (like procmail and > maildrop do). > > If you don't have any of the prerequisites of those (i.e. you don't > have shell access or some other method of controlling your delivery, > and your IMAP server doesn't support SIEVE), then your best bet is to > use something like imap_tools > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/imaptools/) or Sickle > (http://www.codebunny.org/coding/sickle/). I've never used them, but > they look like the last port of call before giving up. > > ~Kyle > -- > Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference > is only in the price. > -- Benjamin Franklin ok, thank you i will try that. Jamie
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